Opera Scotland

Vie Parisienne 1964Sadler's Wells Opera

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The spring 1964 Scottish tour began on 6 April and was limited to the two central belt cities. The performance schedule for Glasgow was as follows: Mon Così; Tue Peter Grimes; Wed Rigoletto; Thu Così; Fri Samson and Delilah; Sat mat & eve La Vie Perisienne. In Edinburgh the order changed, except for Monday and Saturday, but the content was the same.

As with all the recent visits, the scheduling provided for two performances of an operetta staging on the final Saturday, this being the third of Offenbach's famous works to have been produced by the Wells in recent years. This production, which had opened at Sadler's Wells on 24 May 1961, employed again the team who had made such a success of Orpheus in the Underworld the year before.

The review from the Scotsman Monday 20 April only gives very limited details, and there does not appear to have been a review in the Herald. It is a common feature of operatic touring that critics tend not to go, or are not invited, on the final Saturday. Cast details are from a Glasgow programme in the OperaScotland collection.